Micah 3

(3:1-4) God accuses the Israelite leaders of plucking off skin, flesh from bones, eating
human flesh, flaying off skin, breaking bones, chopping bodies in pieces, making
human stew. To punish them he will ignore them when they call on him.

(3:1-2) "O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel ... who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones."

(3:3) "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot,
and as flesh within the caldron."What the Bible says about cannibalism

3:1
And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the
house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

3:2
Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their
flesh from off their bones;

3:3Who also eat the flesh
of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones,
and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.

3:4Then shall they cry unto the LORD, but he will not hear them: he will even hide his face
from them at that time, as they have behaved themselves ill in their
doings.

3:5Thus saith the LORD
concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their
teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare
war against him.

(3:5) "Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err,
that bite with their teeth."
Watch out for lying prophets that bite (with their teeth).

3:6
Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it
shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down
over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

3:7
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they
shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.

3:8
But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment,
and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his
sin.

(3:9-12) Because the leaders of the nation were corrupt, God punishes everyone.

(3:9) "Hear this ... ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity."

3:9Hear this, I pray you,
ye heads of the house of Jacob, and princes of the
house of Israel, that abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

3:11
The heads thereof judge for reward, and the priests thereof teach for
hire, and the prophets thereof divine for money: yet will they lean upon the LORD, and say, Is
not the LORD among us? none evil can come upon us.

(3:11) "The prophets thereof divine for money."Some things never change.

3:12Therefore shall Zion for your
sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem
shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the
forest.

(3:12) "Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps."